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The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Pearl by John Steinbeck The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan The Republic by Plato Macbeth by William Shakespeare Animal Farm by George Orwell King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
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if there were nothing, nothing would be forbidden. Thus nothing is self-forbidding.
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